I know no body asked for it, but I'd just like to give you my perspective anyway, because, hey, I can.

Another rube thinks a few of Art's points were rather astute, and while he was acting out of good intentions, his attitude did certainly come on a little strong. The question of whether the subject matter, of necessity, possibly required said attitude, is one that another rube thinks only really Art can answer, seeing as it's his post that is being.. I don't know, currently discussed.

Perhaps Art's post could have been a little more constructive, and a little less suggestive? Just an idea, what do you think? (you, Art, Datura, anyone else that's interested in adding their opinion to this soft boil of ideas)

(autophagia, lol, thanks)

Datura, if you look at Art's points, perhaps without the attitude that accompanies them, do you think there's anything worthy of taking away from them?

I think it would be nice if we, when in an argument, discussion, or, heh, mutual rhetoric, focused on expressing not only one aspect of how we feel about one's input, but all aspects. You know, the good points and the bad, to use a vastly over-abused dichotomous system of assigning value.

What are your opinions?

"Well, I'll start. Your metacraptalk is enough to do my head in." Mutters the little cynic, whilst making a noose to my collar.

Dear DD,
on your aya journey, did you per chance encounter humility?
If not, she may be awaiting you on the road ahead. Flaming sword held high.
Be well, be cool -
L

Quite likely I could have been a bit nicer, but I'm really not very nice.

Everyone here is entitled to post in whatever fashion that suits them - just as long as what they are sharing isn't harmful to the community. If somebody new shows up with a name like "Dopesick Datura"... or "Methsmoker Gluesniffy"... or "Rustyworks Cokebanger"... or "Loves2DrinkRubbingAlcohol"... regardless of whether or not their posts are nonsensical to the point of gibberish... if they're throwing out dangerous messages which appear to be gaining traction, it's kind of my job as moderator to step in and shut it down.

Oh man that list of names just got exponentially funnier. Honestly, I'm still cracking up.

Anyway, yeah that's an excellent point. embarrassmentisme

This is kinda sweet. It somewhat reminds me of myself at age 18, actually. Once you realize you're not enlightened, you may start the path to enlightenment. Today I'm far from enlightened, but drastically more awake than at age 18, when I ironically was THE enlightened one.

I wish you all the best on the path, once you find it somewhere else than the false path you currently have found in your own ego. Remember that the only reason you are the one is that the one are all. And please, have fun. Dance, if only with your mind. Cheers!

I got a strange PM earlier today. I guess a new member thought I was a mod and wanted his promotion out of the Nursery expedited:

As brutal as it was hilarious.
I'm going straight to hell.

I spit up soda, I literally spit a mouthful of soda at my computer when i saw that gibran2. Thanks a lot

Now, that's one sweet intro essay!

Agreed, gibran2 has made this thread.

Enlightenment is having an open mind, and the common sense to use that in every moment; not ascertainable, but a continuous educational experience.

That's a lovely definition! @_@

(though I don't like the term common sense for personal reasons)

It differs from person to person. We are all ignorant in our own manner. Hello, genetics.

Common sense is not so common.
- Voltaire

I think gibran2 hit the nail right on the head with eloquence. The thing that is puzzeling me is that I can't even bring myself to laugh (all though I know this is realy funny!) because I'm so annoyed with 'Dopesick', even to the point of wanting to do some name calling(!)...(Hey DD; mind if I call you 'Dipstick'? )
My first (kung-fu) sensei once said (in describing how to avoid a trap) "when you're walking down the street and you encounter a pile of dog shit you don't stop and pick it up...(squish it between your fingures, get your nose in it and take a big wiff like; "Oh hey! Wow! Dog shit!". No! You step around it and try to forget your ever even saw it unless it's to warn someone you care about that "there is a pile of dog shit in the middle of the sidewalk so look out so you don't step in it and drag it home onto the carpet my Love." I think that's similar to what gibran2 is trying to do with your post 'DopesickDatura'(yes, I'm posting to YOU ) I know almost nothing about any of the beings on this forum but I do have enuf experiance, intelligence, wisdom (and even a little bit of intuition) to guess that gibran2, like myself, and more than a few others here can see plainly that you are playing with dog shit. You are misrepresenting yourself as someone who knows about shit in general and there is even the real danger of you fooling someone else, who knows and that they know don't know shit about shit and says so (and so they are, in fact, infinitly wiser than you seem to be). Now here's the embarassing part that I'll let you in on (I'll just use I statements for this part out of respect); despite my intelligence and hard-earned, refined level of consciousness I am an expert on manure in general (not just doggie doo ) and a CEO at the local fertilizer factory!!And I'm here to tell you that Dog feces, of all excrement, is the most worthless poison that anything has ever left on the ground. If you keep playing with it you are not only gonna catch a real bad cold, you will have to change your whole definition of what being sick is and how bad a mere cold can be. At least you will learn humility as you struggle to put faith in what you are convinced isn't true but must belive to carry on; that the sickness will go ALL the way away someday instead of you just getting used to feeling a little bit funky for the rest of your life, some days worse than others.
Maybe I'll go ahead and post my Datura report now (I'm sick of telling people that that ally is retired so just leave it alone).
It was like a REALY embarassing dream that seemed to last a thousand years. Rediculeous, misserable, insanity.
Being a heroin addict IS realy embarassing and will make your life into a nightmare that is beyond misserable and insane and won't end for most people till it kills them. This nightmare won't enlighten you. Dreams can't grant you enlightenment. The only way become enlightened is to listen to the voice of silence untill it has nothing left to say.

First, I've got to say-the "know everything about everything" attitude will not mesh well in this community as I've been reading here and there and 'learning the ways' of the Nexus for about 3 months-Under the name "DreamingWhileAwake" (Today was a fresh start.. I preferred my real name). However, it only seems that DD is wanting to fit in just as many new Nexians wish to when first starting out. This questioning of where one belongs in the world alone seems to be what drives many to partake unnecessarily in drugs in the first place..to belong.

Well, what brings us together? This marvelous substance we produce within our own bodies, known as DMT. In this community what do we have to share with each other? Knowledge, ideas, support and possibly friendship . What more do we need?

I would hate to leave his intro essay as a permanent scar in the Nexus, because a few choose not to give DD another chance. It should simply be a reminder that we all should practice humility wherever we go, with whatever we do and whatever we say. If anything I found this mishap more uncomfortable than amusing.

No one should feel obligated to take my post to heart.. but please consider how DD feels. As it is I'd be surprised if he was brave enough to even return to the Nexus Let him change his act, and let us re-welcome him as a member of this community

Was not my intention to rally a lynch mob.

Come on back, Dopesick Datura. We'll all have a nice fresh start.

whuhoo! xD
Well said, Forrest. :]

Actually, my post wasn’t directed at DD. When I saw the imaginary alias “Rustyworks Cokebanger”, I almost fell over in laughter, and immediately pictured good ol’ Rusty in my imagination. (All the aliases provided by Art are very funny – it was so very hard to choose!) The post I wrote followed from that.

I always try to remember that behind each post here on the Nexus is a living human being who is, in the end, in the same boat that I’m in. We’re all trying to make it through this strange and wonderfully psychedelic thing we call “life”. We are all curious, we are all searching, whether we know it or not. We’re all moving in the same direction, even though it sometimes doesn’t seem that way.

Some of us are still very young, and don’t yet know that it’s OK to not know things.

I'm still here browsing the nexus and It's all good and well that you are having your preconceptions about me without actually making any effort to understand that I am just like any other one on this forum but more mystically inclined than most. All this was was an introduction to my style of thought... and I definitely do not know more than most. If anything I only know myself more than others will ever know THEMselves.

How can you know that you are more “mystically inclined” than most on this forum?

How can you be certain that you know yourself more than others will ever know themselves?